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2. Cochlear implant - Wikipedia

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   A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted neuroprosthesis that provides a person who has moderate-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss with sound perception. With the help of therapy, cochlear implants may allow for improved speech understanding in both quiet and noisy environments.

3. What Do Cochlear Implants Cost If You Have Medicare? - AOL

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   Cochlear implant installation procedures in an ambulatory surgical center (outpatient facility) have an average cost of $558, which is covered by Medicare Part B. Out-of-pocket costs include ...

4. Management of hearing loss - Wikipedia

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   The NAD asserts that the choice to implant is up to the individual (or the parents), yet strongly advocates a fully informed decision in all aspects of a cochlear implant. Much of the negative reaction to cochlear implants stems from the medical viewpoint that deafness is a condition that needs to be "cured," while the Deaf community instead ...

5. Hearing Health Foundation - Wikipedia

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   By 1972, the DRF was funding research on cochlear implants, with later grants in single channel to multi-channel implants, speech perception among cochlear implant users, and implants in children. Substantial research and significant contribution in the prevention and treatment of middle ear infection was made by researchers who were awarded ...

6. Sensorineural hearing loss - Wikipedia

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   In cases of profound or total deafness, a cochlear implant is a specialised device that may restore a functional level of hearing. SNHL is at least partially preventable by avoiding environmental noise, ototoxic chemicals and drugs, and head trauma, and treating or inoculating against certain triggering diseases and conditions like meningitis .

7. Auditory brainstem implant - Wikipedia

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   The internal implant sends the signals to the electrode array. The design of the electrode array is the key difference between a cochlear implant and an ABI. Whereas the electrode array for a CI is wire-shaped and is inserted into the cochlea, the electrode array of an ABI is paddle-shaped and is placed on the cochlear nucleus of the brainstem. [3]